“We weren’t planning to move,” said Brenda Collins, executive director of Babies and Beyond of Wisconsin. “The space became available, so we figured ‘Let’s jump on it now while we have this opportunity.’”
Tag: Bishop Donald J. Hying
The Church’s ‘ultimate trial’
An intriguing paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I have often pondered, is #675: “The Church’s ultimate trial. Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution which accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil ‘the mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.”
Janesville couple takes part in Dare to Believe film featuring Bishop Hying
“It was early in October when we got a text from our parochial vicar, Fr. Matthew Pearson, asking if [my wife] Sherri and I wouldn’t want to be a part of a video [related to] the Eucharistic revival,” said Matt Piekarski, a parishioner at St. John Vianney Parish in Janesville.
Growing in love for the Eucharist
This month of June, we Catholics have celebrated both the Solemnities of the Most Holy Eucharist (Corpus Christi) and the Sacred Heart, two mysteries of our faith intimately linked.
Fr. Mark Foley and Fr. Simon Tipps ordained to the priesthood
The Diocese of Madison welcomed two new priests on May 26. Fr. Mark Foley and Fr. Simon Tipps were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison during an Ordination Mass at St. Maria Goretti Church in Madison.
Dealing with anti-Catholicism
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a noted United States historian, famously opined decades ago that anti-Catholicism is “the deepest bias in the history of the American people.”
Come, Holy Spirit
Last weekend we finished the Easter season with the celebration of Pentecost, the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples gathered with the holy women and the Blessed Virgin in the Upper Room.
Emergency personnel honored at sixth annual Blue Mass
“It would be hard to imagine our country or our city without our first responders,” said Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison at the sixth annual Blue Mass held at St. Bernard Parish in Madison. “Where would we be? We’d be in situations of desperation, darkness, violence, suffering, and death all the time.”
What’s happening in the diocese
This past Saturday, we concluded the third and final piece of our Go Make Disciples Live, the diocesan collaboration with The Evangelical Catholic to provide some practical formation for the lay faithful of our parishes to engage and evangelize others with greater competence and confidence.
Viewing the Second Vatican Council
In last week’s column, I discussed Reinhold Niebuhr’s three-fold model of how Christians relate to the culture around them.